Author :
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Unemployment
ISBN : 9789289303972
Engelsk tekst. 109 s., hf., 1999. (TemaNord 1999 ; 597)
Author : David G. Blanchflower
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262023757
The Wage Curve casts doubt on some of the most important ideas in macroeconomics, labor economics, and regional economics. According to macroeconomic orthodoxy, there is a relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of wages. According to orthodoxy in labor economics and regional economics an area's wage is positively related to the amount of joblessness in the area. The Wage Curve suggests that both these beliefs are incorrect. Blanchflower and Oswald argue that the stable relationship is a downward-sloping convex curve linking local unemployment and the level of pay. Their study, one of the most intensive in the history of social science, is based on random samples that provide computerized information on nearly four million people from sixteen countries. Throughout, the authors systematically present evidence and possible explanations for their empirical law of economics.
Author : Solomon W. Polachek
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 15,74 MB
Release : 2000-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762306930
How do technology, public works projects, mental health, race, gender, mobility, retirement benefits, and macroeconomic policies affect worker well-being? This volume contains fourteen original chapters utilizing the latest econometric techniques to answer this question. The findings include the following: technology gains explain over half the decline in U.S. unemployment and over two-thirds the reduction in U.S. inflation; universal health coverage would reduce U.S. labor force participation by 3.3 per cent; blacks respond to regional rather than national changes in schooling rates of return, perhaps implying a more local labor market for blacks than whites; employee motivation enhances labor force participation, on-the-job training, job satisfaction and earnings; male and female promotion and quit rates are comparable once one controls for individual and job characteristics; public works programs designed to increase a worker's skills do not always increase reemployment; and, U.S. pension wealth increased about 20 per cent - 25 per cent over the last two decades.
Author : Floro Ernesto Caroleo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 24,44 MB
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3790816809
This book brings together up-to-date findings on the regional dimensions of European labour markets. It provides a conceptual and empirical study of the interactions between the European economy and its regions, paying particular attention to the issue of the transition of Central and Eastern European countries to a market economy. The topics analysed include: the structure of the shocks affecting employment (regional, industrial, national), the relationships between labour market efficiency and the regional distribution of unemployment, wage flexibility in EU member countries or in their regions and the role of active labour market policies in affecting the regional distribution of employment and unemployment.
Author : Johan Klaesson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642321410
Metropolitan growth has been dramatic in the past several decades, and today metropolitan regions are recognized as the main driving forces in national growth and development as well as in national and global innovation processes. The purpose of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of how metropolitan regions and their subsystems interact and compete, why they differ in their capacity to nurture innovation and growth, and how metropolitan policies must be designed to secure the region’s long-term vitality. To that end, it presents new contributions on theories of urban growth, institutions and policies of urban change, and case studies of urban growth prepared by international experts.
Author : Nordic Council of Ministers
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Employment stabilization
ISBN : 9789289302579
Author : Christoph Hilbert
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3832520465
Labour markets within countries vary in their performance. Some regions suffer from labour shortages, while others are faced with high unemployment figures. Furthermore structure and qualification of the workforce differs, and real wage patterns show diverging pictures between and within regions. Based on these empirical facts this study sheds some light on the wage unemployment relation and the impact active labour market policies has on this. Basic assumption is that market imperfections lead to unemployment in regional labour markets, partly owing to region-specific wage structures, and that active labour market policies can alleviate this problem. Five aspects are focused: The interaction of regional unemployment and wages based on the wage curve, the question how qualification patterns influence the regional wage level, the effectiveness of regional labour market policies, the impact of these policies on regional wage-setting, and the impact of employment service performance on real wages.
Author : Thiess Büttner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642511880
It is dealt with disparities in employment growth, unemployment, and wages between regional labor markets in Germany. First, endogenous formation and growth of industry locations due to agglomeration economies is established as a basic source of disparity in employment. Then, spatial frictions and local wage inflexibility due to central wage bargaining are detected as causes of unemployment disparities. Throughout the book theoretical analysis is combined with rigorous empirical testing using a large set of regional data at district level. In order to gain and robustify empirical results, recent methods in panel econometrics and spatial data analysis are employed. An overview on the extent of key regional labor market disparities in Germany is given. The book enables to assess our current understanding of the role of locational issues in causing those disparities, and thus to understand the basic justification of regional policy.
Author : Eskil Wadensjö
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Covers mainly the period from 1970 to 1992.
Author : O. Bjerkholt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 148329546X
This is the first major joint presentation of macroeconomic models of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Its origin is a selection of the presentations at a seminar on macroeconomic modelling in the Nordic countries held in Lyngby, Denmark, 8-9 October 1984, sponsored by the Nordic Ministries of Finance.The book is concentrated around a thorough presentation of the main macroeconomic medium-term models used in government planning and policy-making in each of the four countries. These models are: in Denmark, ADAM, developed by the Central Statistical Office, in Finland, KESSU, developed within the Ministry of Finance, in Norway, MODAG, developed by the Central Bureau of Statistics, and in Sweden, EMMA, developed within the Ministry of Finance.An introduction to Nordic macroeconomic models is provided, as well as significant features of the institutional use of models within governments in these countries. On the basis of the data presented in the book, the effects of devaluation, wage increases and fiscal policy in the Nordic economies can be compared with each other as well as with other small open economies.
